Contributed by drummerx. Posted by aubin on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM (EST)

According to a report from Brooklyn Vegan, legendary anarcho-punks Crass will be touring the US in March. It should be noted that this is a version of Crass and one that is not necessarily endorsed by all core members of the group. Steve Ignorant, who is running this iteration of the band is actually touring under the formal name "Steve Ignorant's The Last Supper: Crass Songs 1977 - 1984"

"Penis Envy" is my favorite Crass record so I doubt many songs will make it into the show. There's a good chance I'll check this out, in spite of knowing I'll hate 90% of the other people there, if the tickets aren't too stupidly expensive.

Feeding of the 5000 is my favorite Crass record. If you like Crass the East Bay band Surrender is something you should check out. If they were to open this show I'd go in S.F. even though Slim's is about the lamest venue.

Me going to this really depends on the opening bands, cause I kinda don't care that much about seeing a kinda Crass tribute.

Surrender is soooooooooooooo good. I spent over two years looking for the "Last White Flag" 7" before finally finding it in the $0.50 bin at a store a few months ago, great condition and white vinyl. It made my month. They played in Chicago over the summer (or fall, can't remember) and I was all excited to check them out but it completely slipped my mind the day of the show. I still don't forgive myself for it.

They have a full length oun now as well. you should check out there split 7" with Acts of Sedition. AOS is seriously my favoritest band in the East Bay right now. I know the dudes so if you can't find a copy I could easily get you one if you get a hold of me xbatmitex@gmail.com.

I think I'm going to have to go because if it turns out to be a good show I will be kicking myself for missing it.

Slims is a horrible venue but I'm kind of interested to see the crowd that shows up. Will it be a bunch of older punk dudes trying to re-live the glory days or a bunch of younger kids sporting the crass patch?

yeah surrender is fucking awesome. I was just going to ask if anyone has links to anything that isn't the LP because I could never find copies. And whadda ya know? Their recently updated website comes through!http://lastwhiteflag.wordpress.com/

Has anyone seen the Crass documentary There Is No Authority But Yourself? Steve Ignorant doesn't come off overly well in it, particularly in his having much allegiance at all to the Crass ideals anymore. If there's one band that should be held accountable to their politics, it's Crass, so it's hard not to be cynical about the reasons for this tour. It's a good thing Penny's not involved...

You should read Ian Glasper's book on the 1980s Anarchopunk bands from the UK. About 90% of the people involved basically say 'yeah it was fun being an anarchist back then, then we did a ton of drugs, I grew up and now I work some boring job somewhere or occassionally play in a band'.

This is basically the Stratford Mercenaries on tour as Crass, which is fine by me. When the Stratford Mercenaries busted out Crass songs as an encore it was pretty awesome. Granted that was about 10 years ago or more, but I would definitely go to this as it's a close as you're going to get and a bit more legit than the Misfits as an example.

Actually Brooklyn Vegan have got it wrong. I saw this tour in Bristol and Birmingham and it is not CRASS and Steve isn't calling it Crass, it seems to be greedy USA promoters who are doing this. I read on his blog that he's really upset about it. And the rest of the band do support it. Steve and Penny did an interview in front of an audience at Rebellion fest this year and they are still best mates etc.
And this is from Crass' Facebook page (which Southern Records run for them)
Crass is not touring, Crass split up in 1984. However Steve Ignorant is doing a tour called The Last Supper where he is playing Crass songs for the last time. It's his final celebration of what Crass meant to him, and he has the blessing of the former members of the band. He is also looking for a female singer to do the tour, info on same site as below.